Jiří Baum

Jiří Baum (20 September 1900 – 1944, Warsaw) was a Czech zoologist, arachnologist, museum curator, explorer and writer.

His father Josef Baum was a meat trader in Královské Vinohrady while his Františka Baumová was from a farming family in Nadějka.

On returning he joined the natural sciences faculty at Charles University with a special interest in the arthropods.

[1] On his travels across Australia, Baum teamed with Walter Drowley Filmer due to his local expertise with spiders.

[2][3] One species of New-Guinean troglobitic cockroach Nocticola baumi was named in 2021 on honour of Jiří Baum.